Cybersecurity Portal for Effective Management of Servers and Firewalls

This paper presents the design and development of a cybersecurity portal specifically tailored for the centralized management of server infrastructures and firewalls in institutional data centres. With increasing cyber threats and the complexity of distributed IT environments, organizations such as the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) require a scalable, secure, and integrated platform to monitor, authenticate, and control infrastructure endpoints. The portal integrates functionalities like server status monitoring, firewall rule visualization, secure user authentication via OTP, and redirection to threat intelligence services such as VirusTotal. Built using Flask, SQLite, and Flask-Mail, the system simulates real-time API integrations and provides a prototype for potential large-scale implementations in governmental or academic settings.